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Dave T-W

FFS. Every now and again eBay make some change to their interface which just makes everything worse or just breaks everything. Can't print a label, can't tell if it's been paid for.

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Dave T-W

Have been quiet on here, recently, a lot on the last month or so. I expected to run out of spoons after an active summer.
*blurgh*

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Hugh Young

@TheConversationUS
Or rather, "How Cats Domesticated Humans"

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BarCamp London

The first ticket release is at 8pm this evening, London time

boosts appreciated!

^Paul

#bclxii #PaulIsInJapan

eventbrite.co.uk/e/barcamp-lon

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Matt Gemmell

You know you’re getting older when the names of online services become nouns before you get around to finding out what they are.

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Anton Gerashchenko

How the names "Lenino", "Pushkino," and "Turgenevo" appeared on the map of Crimea, what were the original names of those settlements, and several renaming campaigns in Crimea - in this video.

📹krapka.krapka/TikTok

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Denis Buckley

'A conversation about using progressive taxation to rescue and rebuild the UK economy is long overdue. The above is a small sample of the ways in which additional tax revenues can be raised without increasing the rates of income tax, corporation tax and basic national insurance contributions. A large proportion of the population will see no increase in taxes.'

10 ways we could make the tax system more progressive - Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate leftfootforward.org/2023/09/10

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Franck Leroy

Exactly 14 years ago , Satoshi Nakamoto designed the most pathetic / inefficient system ever invented by humankind : the blockchain.

Today, it weights 60 000 tons, wastes constantly 10 gigawatts .. to process less than 7 transactions per second :

Less than a 33 bps modem from 1990.

This could be joke if it didn't have such gigantic environmental impact, wasn't enabling billion dolllars ransomware industry and was not crushing thousands of lives in the process.

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Dave T-W

Moon looks dusky tonight , half way between tangerine and lavender. Anyone else spotted that or are my eyes failing?

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Joseph Andriano

This is one of the most incredible pieces of research into a random piece of infrastructure I’ve ever seen. A wild ride.

tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-

h/t @danyork

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Charlie Stross

@Keltounet @hywan There's a deeper point: the past 70 years of computing have focussed on a spurious vision of progress that forgets to consider the utility of a stable platform. Operating systems in particular are driven by commercial goals (sell more software! Get more Linux desktops out there!) that are actively inimical to the needs of their users. Forcing users to learn a new way of working every year—even if they don't need to—is crazy. And it renders computers inaccessible to the elderly.

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Michael

Michael Gove scrapped the £56bn school building project in 2010 that was set to replace every single RAAC school in the UK.

He then replaced it with nothing.

Fast forward 13 years and they are all falling down.

Whose fault is it?

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Yogthos

this reads like The Onion

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Dave T-W

Huge preparation over the last few weeks for today's community AGM. The difficult people had their say, were answered fully and showed how they had nothing positive to say.

Some many great contributions, words of support and great ideas for the coming year.

Full of beans and so proud of the team we've recruited this year and the way we've all worked together.

Pitchforks down!

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Dave T-W

Advice for document preparation.
I want to print many copies of the same single page document, but have each copy numbered in several places. Is there a way to add that to the document?
Am thinking a mail merge is a workaround but wondered if there was a simpler solution. Googlefu is weak on this one.

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HappyToast

Trump team Gotham mugshots

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Dave T-W

"Do you need TP?"

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Dave T-W

It is, thanks all the same. That's not the reason for my visit to Boots the Chemist today.

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Was out at a major shopping mall today, and popped into one of the last big department stores. I'm sorry to say: it's doomed. Has been in decline for many years but now it's clear that management have done nothing to save it from this death spiral.

Lots of staff chatting with each other, barely any customers, but they're getting some fundamentals wrong. The entire store is just full of racks of random clothes, so looks more like a giant charity shop. Signs all over just say 50% off, but nothing to direct you to fitting rooms (tiny cubicle), tills, or any other facilities that M&S, John Lewis and heck, even Primark manage to provide. Even the lighting makes it feel like you're in Dawn of the Dead, or 1987 Moscow.

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Essie :enby:

There is no biological difference in autism between men and women. What we think of as 'female traits' are just masking traits most of the time. Autism might appear different between genders, but that's a perception or societal issue, not an actual biological reality. So it makes perfect sense for you to not be female but still relate to female autistic traits. The root of the 'male vs female autism' stuff is unfortunately just pseudoscience.

@Autistrain @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity @Tooden @ScottSoCal @pathfinder @markusl @johnettesnuggs @sentient_water @hellomiakoda @Adventurer

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